Exhibitions

About

Christoph Dahlhausen is an artist and curator based in Bonn, Germany who has exhibited widely throughout Europe, Australia, New Zealand and South America. His works are exhibited both in public spaces and private collections.

About

Christoph Dahlhausen, born 1960, is a German-based fine artist and teacher. He is working across painting, sculpture, installation and light-based artistic forms. His practice is highly regarded in Germany.

He has exhibited and curated extensively both in museums, institutional and commercial spaces in Europe, USA, Mexico, Brasilia, Australia and New Zealand.

He is Adjunct Professor of Fine Art at the School of Art, RMIT University in Melbourne.

He received re-known grants and art awards, including the highly regarded art ward from the city of Bonn.

7.-20.8.2017 Verein für aktuelle Kunst, Oberhausen, Members PLease – international painting group show

Works

Light, the natural and the artificial, has always been the focus of Christoph Dahlhausens artistic research. In the early 1990 he used photography to catch light effects and created painting like ‘light images’. Later his glassworks have been exhibited worldwide. These glassworks painted shadows on the wall, created a dialog and between the real space and the virtual visible in the work. Since 2005 the German artist uses artificial light, special blue fluorescent light tubes, not just as an additional esthetical element in sculptural situations or as illumination, but as an independent medium. For the combination of blue fluorescent light tubes with ordinary steel scaffoldings Dahlhausen was nominated for the short list of the first international light art award.

Projects

Art in architedture and art in public are important issues and fields in Dahlhausens practice. Site specific installations using vinyl on glass he realized as comissions worlwide, for example at the Brasilian Ministery for Education and Health in Rio De Janeiro, a Oscar Niemeier building, Konrad Adenauer Association in Berlin, Kreditanstalt fuer Wiederaufbau Berlin, Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne among others. His participatory public art projects have been done for example in Germany, The Netherlands, Hong- Kong and New Zealand.